encore

/ˈɒŋkɔː/

Etymology

Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.

intj

  1. Please perform again!

noun

  1. A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.“To play an encore.”
  2. A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.“The encores were numerous.”

verb

  1. To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.“to encore a performer”
  2. To call for an encore.
  3. To perform an encore.“In youth we encore the sentiment, 'Oh, bless my country, Heaven! he said, and died:' but, as we advance in life, we think, 'How weak it is to pity Cato's case, Who might have lived, and had a handsome place!'”